Bookbinding and means for binding books



Feb. 19,1935.

J. cRoNE BOOKBINDING AND MEANS FOR BINDING BOOKS Filed April 19, 1934rebinding when` the coveir has Patented Feb. 19, 1935 STATE BooKs` lEmniwJane Grone, Marathon', Iowa:r

' Apelieaton. Aprii. 1:9, 1954i, senat No. 121,343,

' eoieims. (o1. zar-12er This; invention'. relates-to `lmokbin'ding and.hasy to d'0 with. an. improved'rdevice for fasteningy the contents ofa;bookini itsiolover;l It may be used either in the originaliI binding of.a book ox', become detached Vfrom the: ciontentsa.`

The' invention: consists ofi the following and the-l methodt of:` itsAapplication layers of.y suitable? binding materiel with an intervening.layer: of; adhesive-frepellent maf terial arelstitchedltogethersoPthat-onelayer'of, the bindingi materiaal is adapted.'to` beadhesivelyy fastenedito" the` back and adu'acent end: paliers'` of thecontents` of ai book'azid tlie:y other layer: of binding.' materialisi'adaqsted;` to: be'adliesivelyY fastened tothebwckzandaadiaoentleaves of laib'oolz cover; the intervening layeziyof. adhesiveerepellent material serving to keep the binding materialsfrom adhering te each other` when'. an adhesive is applied to.: them,andfurther serving as aconi` Venilencet in. keeping` the adhesive ronrother? undesiredrplac'es.. l f

The usuali Acfmnnercz'uazl devices nmrket'ed'v ati the present andf.wtncl; halve; for their purpose the. attaclinrxentioliA the' contentsof." ar book to,Y its' cover, are mad oitV gummed suchi as Atape;.'b'ook' cloth, 'adlsivei papier; ou' similar: materi'alsf Such)materials: are not'. recommended byfpersons: tamiliar ivi-tirA themending: o1'. original' bindings et' books;; andi who: have made; actualtests withl differentimatenialst` Experience has proved that the.'softer andi lighter weight the: merrding fabicsthe. better fon theb'ools'andi thenoire enduring: the'. Vresults Because: gumme'd;materials are motel' quickly andi easilvl used; theyazes often applied.withoutdiscriminatiorr: and frequently.` result inf damage to the':book;Itis generally' ac ceptedthat'ung'ummedl clotli's moreadl-iesivenexibiegand alsof-lessi. expensive, thanithef gummed materia-lscommonly' ini use.'l lflovvever;A it'. has; not heretofore beenpracticable tomafkei such; devices from inexpensive: `ungu`xnmed`=Vmaterials? since` when an adhesive i's` anpliedi'toisuoli' materials itpenetrates them and causesitlielniateribsto adidevice J here tov each.`othenztnusidestroyingftli'e freedom sequentlye QEHCZE' the-adhesivehmdens, cracksV and del teriorates with time;- 'and-When. eventuallyusedin-b'ookbin ding',L the:adhesivoV does! not adhereiiirm-` tion.

VMyinventionconsists ot anovel combination`-'` of materials, describedand 'a1-method.' for their" use, which is by' this specification;illustrated; by the accompanying drawing, and' 11115!A claimed here-1ina'fter.

invention', isi ezlesigned` to make pos--` suchas ar by means,

einexpensive-,Jn tlmafrt of bookbinding' ot, a: devicey so eiec'tiveand' eclonoinicelA andfamethod': so: quick and! easyI that there will nolonger'- i summedmaterials;

A. brief widescriptionvof.

be any. inducement.v to? employ inferior the: accomjoanying drawing,Whichllik'e numerals of.' reference indicatelike partszinf the several:figures, follows--f Figure 1'. representsthe:` contents1 ofi a'- boolv:l

rea-d5r to' be. fastened into.i its. (fumier:i

Figure; 2: represents` a: cover' ready to: receive thecontentsfoflaalbookp' Y Figure 3 represents an embodimentl ot my inventioni inemployed.,AV

whchitwof parallel; lines oft stitches: are

ployedif l Various the method, off, itsruse;` butemploying? the samemodificationsot mw'invention and basicprinciples,,Willbefullydesevibeda'ndfclaimed hereinater; AIt isfnotdesiredf to cox-inne: th'efinvention tolthefexact forms liereini'shown and descriloedggfbutltolincludevall' suchffomns as proper'- lyoomewlthinfthefsebpe4claimed.. Y

A detailed'rdescziiption;ofc the-drawing; the elementsl of',

fbook lea-ves 27: have' been assembled inE stitched signatures withthe?exposed signatures and stitches show-ingginVv the back 281 The edges'of-' the back of, theuncove'xied` book contents*` are the. uncovrepresentedi by 29?. Th'ef endf papers of eredf boolc contents: are:represented' by This manner of assembling the contents of a book is wellknown and forms no part of my invention.l The contents may be assembledin any other way, and still may be adapted for use with my improveddevice for binding the uncovered contents into their cover. The scope ofmy invention is not limited to use with the contents of a book assembledin the manner illustrated by Figurel. n 1' Y' Y Figure'2 represents aView of a well kknown form of book cover, commonly known as a madecover. in contradistinction to` a cover built upon` the book itself, asis often rdone with hand made In Figure 2,V the numeral 31 represents'books. the back of the made cover. The leaves adjacent to the back ofthe cover are represented by the numeral 32. Those portionsof the'covervwhich are to serve as hinges when lthe contents 'and the madecover are joined by my invention are represented by 33. The illustrationof a made cover is included for the purpose of'clarityV only, it beingrepresentative -of'r the known prior art, and

the cover forming no part of my invention. 'Ihe scope of my inventionisnot limited to use with the formY of cover` shown in Figure 2, as thecover may be of any type needing to be fastened to the contents.

be adhesivelyifastened to: the made cover. The

intervening layer of adhesive-repellent material is represented in itsVentiretyl by the .numerals 24 andthe numeral 25, thewing `apsof theadhesive-repellent layerbeing represented by the numerals 24,Y and thatportion YVofthe adhesive- `repellent layer :lying-.between thelparallelrows of stitches being represented by the numeral 25. The parallel rowsof stitchesxare represented by the numeral 26. i 1 n ,Figure 4represents.' an end View of a covered book, the contents of which havebeen boundto a made cover by the use of that embodimentof my inventionin which two parallel rowsof stitches areemployed, as illustrated-inFigure 3. In Figure 4, the wingaps 24 of the interveningV layer ofadhesive-repellent material (as shown in Fig-V ure 3)" have beenremoved, while that section of the intervening layer ofadhesive-repellent mate-k rial represented by theV numeral -25,wandlying betweenfthefparallel rows of stitches; remains in its originalposition. There is no necessity for removingggthe ,wing flaps 24 of the.intervening layer of adhesivefrepellent material aftery the cover andcontents of the book have been joined.- They may be allowed to remain ifdesired. v Figure 5 represents an embodiment of my invention in whichY asingle row ofstitches is 'employed, in conjunction with the otherelements of the invention. l'Ihenumerals in Figure 5 represent the sameelements vof-the `invention asare represented by like numerals in Figure3. v'

Thev various parts of the binder, contents, and cover being thusspecified, the method of fastening the contents into the cover consistsof Ytwo simple operations; namely, I .1( 1) adhesivelyY fastening thebinder to the contents, and (2) adhesively fastening the contents, thusbound, .into the cover. This order of procedure need not neccontents.

essarily be followed, as the binder may well be iirst fastened to thecover, and then to the con-V tents. The former procedure is'probably themore practicable and more easily accomplished. More fully described, theoperations follow: Y

When using that embodiment of my invention'v Y shown in Figure 3, asuitable adhesive is applied to the back of the book contents 28,*whereit is 'Y i 26 lying along the edges 29 of the back ofthe contents, thevWidth between the parallel lines yof stitches conforming'with the widthof the v:book Thus applied, the surfaces-20 and 21 ,of the binder v areadhesively bound to the' end papers 30 and theback 28 of thebookcontents.

An adhesive is now applied to the outersur- Y faces of that portion ofthe binder represented by 22 and 23, and by means of the adhesive thesesurfaces are fastened :respectively to those 1 por? tionsv of the c'over represented by 32 and 31. l'lhe lines of stitches 26'1nowcoincidewithy the hinge: portions 33 of the made coven.Y v Duringthefoperations'described,1the intervening layer of adhesiverepellentimaterial rep-l resentedby- 24 and 25- has servedto prevent the adhesivesubstancensedafrom penetrating theA respectivel layersof :bindingmaterial. and causing them .tof adhere together, andinask also acted tog prevent ltheadl'iesive from` reaching 'other unde- Y sired places.l.When the'adhesive' has dried, the

wingsurfa'ces 24 of the intervening layerof ad-VY .I

hesive-repell'ent.v material, .which canceas'ily be torn `at thestitches 26, maybe Aremoved (as shown in Figure.4), .or be kallowedtoremain inV their original position, whichever may be vdec` sired.g. sIn this embodiment; of my invention, thegtwo layers ofbinding material,as well as ythe 'inter-l vveninglayer of. adhesivefrepellent material,may

be of any size desired. The width;bet"ween.the parallel rows offstitches may*z likewise beof. any

width desired, such widthbeing governed by thev width of the contentsofthe particularbookto which the ybindery is being` applied.1. f z fWhen using thatv embodiment ofmy invention shown `in Figure :5, which isadaptedv for binding books the backs of which are comparatively thin, orfor. fasteningpampletsinto their covers, or for refastening loosesections @in the .-ofontentslof' books, substantially the sameoperations take 'r place.y The surfaces20 ofthe binderareadhe# sivelyfastened Ato thev end papersof the contents of the book or pamphlet-v`being bound,.while the surfaces 22 are adhesively fastened to'the `coveroffthabook or pamphlet. The., single row. Yo1.' stitches-.'26, in thisembodiment ofmy'invention, lies; along the `center of `theback of thecontents thus bound,` and. along the, centerf o1',l the cover. Thefunctionv ofthe intervening `layer of adhesive-,repellent -materialV24'is the same in this emg bodiment lof my Yinventionas it is in thatembodiment shown inFigure 3.. 1 f y Y 3 I'have described a novel methodand means by which a bookmay'beeffectively fastened in its coverthroughL the use 'Y 'of ungummedv materials,

1,991,662 which is to prevent the adhesion of the separatedV surfaces atundesired places. By this I prevent much of the undesirable rigidity ofthe back of thecontents, which so often causes a book to break whenbeing opened. In prior art, materials as thin as netting have commonlybeen glued to the back of the contents of a book, and it has often beenthe practice to apply on top of the netting a layer of paper whichadhered to the glue that had been used when the netting was applied. Theeiect of this method of preventing the cover V fromadhering to thecontents has been the rigidity and liability to breakagementioned. Mylayer of adhesive-repellent material permanently prevents the adherenceof these surfaces, even in cases where futureV dampness might otherwiselead to their adherence, and it consequently retains for the back of thebook a flexibility much desired in the construction of books.

I claim:

1. As an article of manufacture, a bookbinding device consisting of twolayers of binding mate-v rial and an intervening layer ofadhesive-repellent material, fastened together with two parallel rows'of stitches, or the like, the stitches being so spaced that one layer ofthe binding material is adapted to be adhesively fastened to the backand adjacent end papers of the contents of the book and the other layerof the binding material is adapted to be adhesively fastened to the backand adjacent leaves of the cover, the intervening layer ofadhesive-repellent material being utilized for the purposes of keepingthe two layers of binding material from adhering to each other when theadhesive is applied to them, and of keeping the adhesive from otherundesired surfaces.

2. As an article of manufacture, a bookbinding device consisting of twolayers of binding material and an intervening layer ofadhesive-repellent material fastened together with a single row ofstitches, or the like, in such a manner that one layer of the bindingmaterial is adapted to be adhesively fastened to the back and adjacentend papers of the contents and the other layer of the binding materialis adapted to be adhesively fastened to the back and adjacent leaves ofthe cover of a book or pamphlet which is comparatively A hering to eachother when the adhesive is applied to them, and of keeping the adhesivefrom other undesired places.

3. In the art of bookbinding, a device` consisting of two layers ofbinding material and an intervening layer of adhesive-repellentmaterial, fastened together in such a manner that one layer of thebinding material is adapted to be adhesively fastened to the back andadjacent end papers of the contents of a book and the other layer of thebinding material is adapted to be adhesively fastened to the back andadjacent leaves of a book cover, thusV adhesively fastening one side ofthe binder thus formed to the back and adjacent end papers of thecontents of the book and adhesively fastening the other side of thebinder to the back and adjacent leaves of the cover, the interveninglayer of adhesive-repellent material serving to prevent the two layersof binding material separated by it from adhering to each other when theadhesive is applied, and to keep the adhesive from other undesiredsurfaces.

4. In combination with the contents of a book and the cover thereof, alayer or layers of adhesiverepellent material, stitched or otherwisefastened between the binding materials to be utilized in fastening thecontents of the book into its cover through the application of anadhesive to such binding materials, such layer or layers ofadhesiverepellent material being utilized for the purpose of preventingthe adhesion of the cover and the contents Yof the book at any otherplaces than those where it has been designed that the cover and thecontents of the book shall be fastened together.

EMMA'JANE CRONE.

